Business, Economy

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, one Tulane University student decided to do her part to revitalize her campus and community. Join Erica Trani, Tulane alumnus and now business entrepreneur, to learn about her experiences with fair trade in economically developing areas. Inspired by travels to Ecuador, she returned to the states to begin IN Exchange, an on-campus enterprise that exhibits local and global goods for a fair price.

Andrew W. Lo, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Laboratory for Financial Engineering, breaks down the hot debate brewing about the cause of the current financial crisis. Learn the arguments for and against the claim that complex financial securities and the mathematical models used to manage them should take the blame. Was it systematically programmed or just human nature?

The video that all meat-eaters should watch and every vegetarian should own, "Meet Your Meat", narrated by Alec Baldwin, covers each stage of life of animals raised for food. No PETA videos are copyrighted, so copy them for everyone you know.

How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenised, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in?